Further integrating Europe's immigration rules, Poland announced on January 26 that it will join the European Union's Schengen Agreement, the newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza reports.
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The number of immigrants to Germany dropped below 800,000 for the first time in many years in 2003, the broadcaster Deutsche Welle reports.
According to Government figures released on January 17, 768,000 migrants came to Germany in 2003. About two thirds of these arrivals were from European countries, mainly Italy, Poland, Russia and Turkey.
A leading human rights watchdog has accused the European Union and its member states of neglecting the rights of asylum seekers in their migration and anti-terrorism polices, the website EU Observer reports.
According to a report published January 13 by the US-based organization Human Rights Watch (HRW), the actions and policies of authorities in Europe adds up to a policy geared toward keeping asylum seekers out.
"The exclusive focus on combating illegal immigration in Europe reflects a disturbing and prevailing attitude that migrants have no rights," the report states.
New rules in Germany effective from January 1 will make entering andstaying in Germany easier for skilled migrants, while keeping tightrestrictions on unskilled immigration, the broadcaster Deutsche Welle(DE) reports
The European Commission is looking at a range of immigration reforms to deal with Europe's severe shortage of workers the Financial Times newspaper reports.
An ideas paper published by the European Commission on January 11 proposes measures ranging from fast-track immigration to deal with short-term labor shortages, to a longer-term solution for attracting workers similar to the American green card.
Daily German newspaper, Die Tageszietung, calls upon the country’s Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder’s Social Democrats (SPD) to take action after a commission concluded that the country is in need of an estimated 25,000 skilled immigrant workers.
The commission’s report says there is a shortfall in skilled labor. Still, the SPD maintains that foreign workers should not be sought while the country has some four million unemployed. Even though the commission was looking to fill jobs for which there are no German takers.